Let’s try reaching across the aisle

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Experiencing first-time motherhood

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Achieving the American dream

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My favorite thing about writing this column is reader responses. I read every email I receive, and although I can't respond to them all, they mean...

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AI allows students to be cheated

I usually teach summer school the second term in order to make extra money for my kids' school clothes.

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OPINION | Gwen Ford Faulkenberry: Abandon darkness for light, love

Democrat-Gazette online I was on Facebook earlier this week and came across a friend with whom I have all but lost touch. We met in college at UCA...

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Will our rural culture fight back?

My son Harper is the most All-American rural Arkansan, in the best sense of both, I have ever seen.

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OPINION | GWEN FAULKENBERRY: The right man for the job

Democrat-Gazette online A few days ago, I received a screenshot of a text Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and now ambassador to Israel,...

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A clearly marked path to unity

I wrote Thursday about the meme I saw on Facebook that featured a picture of an old ice freezer in front of a grocery store, the kind where you get...

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OPINION | GWEN FAULKENBERRY: How to cross the great divide

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How to honor victims of abuse

Three days ago, beloved ex-Baptist Bible teacher Beth Moore tweeted this paraphrase of Psalm 23:"The Lord is Jennifer Lyell's Shepherd.

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OPINION | GWEN FORD FAULKENBERRY: Determining what really matters

Democrat-Gazette online My friend Don Bacon teaches a Sunday School class at his church in Little Rock. At my request, he includes me on the class...

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OPINION | GWEN FORD FAULKENBERRY: Laws should be equal

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Do we have to play this game?

I always feel like I don't fit in my hometown until I leave.

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OPINION | GWEN FORD FAULKENBERRY:

I am writing this from the worst seat on United Airlines flight 2160 from Denver to Dallas. The flight attendants just passed me with trolleys of...

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Lessons from ‘Lord of the Flies’

The past week brought news that former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to his...

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OPINION | GWEN FAULKENBERRY: Fear is not weakness

Democrat-Gazette online I recently visited with one of my oldest and dearest friends from home, a gay man who was raised similarly to me in a...

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Benefits of U.S. friendship with other countries

I have been thinking about America. So often I come to this space to write a column after reading a plethora of excellent journalism in this paper...

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Do we ever do enough?

Democrat-Gazette online We have three major milestones happening this week in our family. Daughter Adelaide graduates from high school, son Harper...

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An ordinary mother’s typical week

I got the chance to take Stella, my youngest daughter, on an educational trip, which was great except for the guilt I felt about leaving Adelaide,...

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The hard work of leadership

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Birthday dinner for a deserving dad

Today is my dad's birthday. He is 79. I get to make his lunch, which per his request will be fried pork chops, homemade buttermilk biscuits, gravy,...

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Honoring those who choose hope

Ever since the death of the pope, I have been thinking about heroes. Specifically, my heroes, and how thankful I am that in a world where I am ashamed...

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OPIINION | GWEN FORD FAULKENBERRY: Discovering the meaning of ‘home’

Hello, readers of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. My name is Justin. When Gwen asked me to write a piece for her, I thought about saying no, because I...

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OPINION | GWEN FORD FAULKENBERRY: Let’s make this clear

To the dearest readers in the world: I am writing to clarify that my online column of Thursday, April 17, was a work of fiction. I mentioned in a...

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Mourning for a remarkable woman

It is quiet in my house.

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OPINION | GWEN FAULKENBERRY: Lost on the wrong road

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Staring into the face of courage

I have been asked to speak to the adult Sunday School classes at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock today.

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Keeping up with a runaway train

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A hidden measure of character

I came across something the other day that gave me insight into the psyche of Elon Musk beyond what I usually think of him, which is not much.

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OPINION | GWEN FAULKENBERRY: Goodbye to our childhood home

Democrat-Gazette online My parents have sold the place where I grew up. It is a little farm on top of a mountain. Different than the untamed extremes...

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We’re Americans; we can fix this

The other day Adelaide and I were sitting on Couchy; she was doing some artsy project like she does all of the time, and I was reading.

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OPINION | GWEN FORD FAULKENBERRY: Information sources matter

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A coach can change a life

One day last year my daughter Stella came home from school telling me about some guy named Rhino who was a basketball trainer. A few of her friends...

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Who decides what words mean?

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